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\Vith my best wishes for a speedy end to your present distressed ( condition, I remain your friend and fellow-citizen. Mirabeau B. Lamar.
No. 1085
1839 Feb. 22, J. lL ALLEN TOM. B. LAMAR
Galveston. Febry. 22nd [1839]
To
His Excellency M. B. Lamar.
Dear Sir-
I am just in receipt of a letter from lVIr. Saml. Ellis of New Orleans who has requested me to recom- mend him to your Excellency for the Consulship at New York I have known Mr. Ellis intimately for a number of years & can with safety say that he has competency to fill the office, should it yet be vacant- he has been a long time connected with the agency of this Govt. at New Orleans & done much for the common cause- therefore has strong claims on us.
I remain yours respectfully J. ]i. Allen.
[Addressed] To
[Endorsed] J l\I Allen
His Excellency M. B. Lamar- Houston,
Galveston 22nd. Feb. 183(1 Appl for Ellis as Consul for N. Y.
Texas.
No. 1086 1839 Feb. 22, W. T. SADDLER, [_CROCKETT], TO M. B. LAMAR Houston County Texas Fehr. 22nd. 1S3!} His Excellency M. B. Lamar Sir many have been the vicisitudes th[r]ough which I have pas'd since I saw you not haveing saw you since soon after the battle of Sanjacinto I returned to this neighbourhood and commenced farm- ing and married in march following and was doing well until the 18th. of October last at which time my wife was murdered by the indians being at the time in the army myself in the command of a small company of volluntears by the order of Major E. Clap haveing left my companion in the care of her farth~r, I still remain in this country as yet but if something eficient is not done ·to check the indians this county will have to break entire a large portion of the inhabitants are already gone. There has been some futile attempts made to protect this county but all the good they have done has been to impoverish the country for so as they have destroyed the corn [and] beef in the neighbor hood they curs the people and leave them to shift for themselves and we are too weak now and daly becom- ing weaker so that I fear we shall have to break entire and if this county should go the county of Nacogdoches will follow and' where
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